Samantha Wallace | Emerging Women in Politics

Samantha S. Wallace is the co-founder and publisher of edible Upcountry, a magazine dedicated to celebrating the regional food culture and sustainable foodways of upstate South Carolina. She is also one of the original co-founders of M.Judson, an independent bookstore in downtown Greenville.

Politically, Sam was instrumental in leading upstate representation to the Women’s March in Washington. Subsequently, she served on the founding Organizing Committee of Emerge South Carolina, a new statewide organization dedicated to recruiting, training and supporting Democratic women running office, and was just elected in October as the organization’s first Chair of the Board of Directors.